Re: git pull/merge master on other branch

Johan Herland wrote, at 5/9/2008 3:24 PM:

On Friday 09 May 2008, SungHyun Nam wrote:

quoted

Hello,

If I am on a branch (reguarly rebased), I don't want to switch to
master branch, but merge origin into master.
If I switch to master and pull and switch to branch, I have to
rebuild almost of sources.

How I can pull origin into master without switching to master
branch?

You can't; merging requires use of the working tree (to resolve conflicts).

However, what you can do is make a local clone of your project (cheap,
because it just hardlinks files from the original repo), and checkout the
master branch in the clone, perform the merge (after having set up the same
origin and retrieved its contents), and then fetch (or push) the result back
into the original repo (remember: "fetch" instead of "pull", since the
latter will initiate a merge with your current branch).

I tested and it seems work fine.

$ mkdir repo; cd repo; git init; echo 'aaa' > a; git add .; git ci -m 
'aaa'; cd ..
$ git clone repo t; cd t; git co -b test; cd ..
$ cd repo; echo 'bbb' >> a; git ci -m 'bbb' a; cd ..
$ git clone t t2; cd t2; git remote add central ../repo; git pull 
central master; git push origin; cd ..
$ cd t; git log; git log master; git rebase master

Did I do correctly?

Thanks,
namsh